“The Greatest Historical Work yet Produced in America”
A HISTORY OF THEINQUISITION OF SPAINBYHENRY CHARLES LEA, LL.D.In Four Volumes
“An achievement which places its author at the head of all American historical students now living. It makes him the peer of Motley, Prescott and Parkman, his only competitors in the past. To put the matter shortly Mr. Lea has produced a work on a subject of absorbing interest, which for many a long day to come must serve as an authority to European experts on the subject.”—New York Times.The New York Tribunedescribes the work as “an historical classic in which thoroughness, fairness and reserve are combined in a readable presentation of facts of universal interest.”“Dr. Lea has given the world of thoughtful students a work that will have a lasting place and a growing power in the right use of history. His works have found many readers in Europe, where the questions of Church and State are much more acute than in this country. Here scholars and the growing army of historical students and writers all unite to do honor to Doctor Lea as the foremost American historian, whose researches in an almost unknown field have shown how great a power he possesses of throwing new light on old facts and marshalling historical evidence so as to give the world a new picture of a far-distant past.”—Philadelphia Ledger.“Rarely has so significant an institution been so sanely and comprehensively studied, and rarely has the reader been placed in so good a position to observe its workings and draw his own conclusions from the evidence presented.”—The Nation.
“An achievement which places its author at the head of all American historical students now living. It makes him the peer of Motley, Prescott and Parkman, his only competitors in the past. To put the matter shortly Mr. Lea has produced a work on a subject of absorbing interest, which for many a long day to come must serve as an authority to European experts on the subject.”—New York Times.
The New York Tribunedescribes the work as “an historical classic in which thoroughness, fairness and reserve are combined in a readable presentation of facts of universal interest.”
“Dr. Lea has given the world of thoughtful students a work that will have a lasting place and a growing power in the right use of history. His works have found many readers in Europe, where the questions of Church and State are much more acute than in this country. Here scholars and the growing army of historical students and writers all unite to do honor to Doctor Lea as the foremost American historian, whose researches in an almost unknown field have shown how great a power he possesses of throwing new light on old facts and marshalling historical evidence so as to give the world a new picture of a far-distant past.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
“Rarely has so significant an institution been so sanely and comprehensively studied, and rarely has the reader been placed in so good a position to observe its workings and draw his own conclusions from the evidence presented.”—The Nation.
It is one of the most interesting problems in human history that Spain, whose brilliant achievements promised to make her as dominant in the world of letters as in military and naval enterprise, should, within the space of a couple of generations, have become the most uncultured land in Christendom. For this there must have been a cause and no other adequate one than the Inquisition has been discovered. In this work Dr. Lea makes clear the progress of its influence.
It is one of the most interesting problems in human history that Spain, whose brilliant achievements promised to make her as dominant in the world of letters as in military and naval enterprise, should, within the space of a couple of generations, have become the most uncultured land in Christendom. For this there must have been a cause and no other adequate one than the Inquisition has been discovered. In this work Dr. Lea makes clear the progress of its influence.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
HISTORY OF THEINQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGESIn Three Volumes
“To write of the Inquisition without bitterness, to bring the operations to calm analysis, to seek out its origin and reason for being in the conditions of the time, and to trace its influences—such is the task to which Dr. Lea brings the experience of a born investigator and the poise and dignity of a trained historian.”—New York Tribune.
“There are some books which reveal the loftiest effort of a broad and earnest life; such a book springs from the highest aims, and will therefore be recognized not only as scientific, but as giving impulse to the intellectual action and aspiration of its epoch. Such a book is the ‘History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages,’ by Henry Charles Lea.”—Frankfurter Zeitung.
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A HISTORY OFSACERDOTAL CELIBACY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
In Two Volumes, Third Edition, RevisedOf special interest to those who are watching a modern trend toward clerical ascetic celibacy. It aims to be an impartial statement of facts with references to the authority substantiating the statement.
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